Turkish and Kurdish nations and our working people of various nationalities,
The representative of the international proletariat on the lands of Turkey, the Party of the fire of rebellion in the struggle for the Democratic People’s Revolution, Socialism and Communism, TKP/ML, is 54 years old.
54 years ago, on 24 April 1972, a handful of people led by the communist leader İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA shattered the 50-year silence following Mustafa Suphi’s TKP and recreated hope from its ashes. The Hope reborn from its ashes has been carried to this day over 54 years by creating a great tradition of struggle. It experienced defeats as well as victories; at no moment did the red flag ever fall from the hands of those who carried it. It was walked by not becoming accustomed to darkness, not kneeling, and struggling under all conditions.
This hope grew through action.
This Hope was transformed into the revolutionary will of those whose labor was devalued, who were exploited, and whose voices were suppressed.
This Hope is the hope of liberation of the people under the leadership of the working class.
The need to transform the revolutionary power of the people into an organized force makes itself felt with all its urgency. As the struggle for hegemony among imperialists deepens, the working class and the oppressed working peoples of the world are being driven into an ever greater darkness. The period of partial compromise that emerged after the temporary defeat of socialism has come to an end. It has been replaced by a long-lasting process of crisis and conflict. This situation brings new wars of redivision even closer. This situation brings new wars for the redivision of the world even closer. Today, the inter-imperialist struggle for hegemony—advancing through regional maneuvers yet marked by endless conflicts—also signifies the bankruptcy of a “dream.”
The discourse of reconciliation presented in the 1990s under the name of “globalization” has collapsed today. Inter-imperialist rivalry has now turned into a military antagonism as well, as much as an economic and political one. On the one hand, from Ukraine to the Middle East and from the Middle East to the Gulf, the war dimension of imperialist rivalry is emerging as a product of the crisis; on the other hand, the deepening of exploitation and the reckless seizure of the social, national, and political gains of the peoples are taking place. The economic crisis, intensifying political contradictions, and escalating military aggression are bringing fascistic repression forward as an even greater necessity.
This describes not only the sharpening of inter-imperialist contradictions into a sharp struggle, but also, and primarily, the intensification of the contradictions between the imperialists and the peoples of the world. Therefore, the imperialists are not only intensifying their rivalry among themselves; they are primarily focusing on suppressing the revolutionary power of the working class and the peoples. Even amid their sharp contradictions among themselves, this remains the fundamental issue on which they reach agreement. Because the imperialists and their lackeys know that every sharpening contradiction, in terms of its direct impact on the lives of the peoples, also develops the revolutionary situation.
It is a fact that the sharpening of inter-imperialist contradictions has not yet been able to change the fact that the main current is revolution. Therefore, on the one hand, broad masses of the people are being forced to take sides in the imperialists’ struggle for hegemony, while on the other hand, the dynamics of the struggle are also being targeted by attacks. Every rising voice is an attempt to be suppressed, every barricade an attempt to be torn down, every fire of rebellion an attempt to be extinguished, and the transformative power of the people an attempt to be restrained.
The targets of these attacks are organized struggle and, as its most advanced form, armed struggle. On the one hand, through annihilation attacks and on the other through liquidationist attacks, the armed will of the people is being sought to be eroded. Rulers who, within imperialist plans for hegemony, seek a rose garden without thorns are encircling organized struggle and armed struggles from all sides, aiming to eliminate them. This also aims to destroy the hope of liberation of the masses, to dull their consciousness, and to turn them into slaves in their own struggles for hegemony.
The imperialists are aware not only that an unorganized people are helpless, but also that organized struggle on the line of armed resistance constitutes the main threat to their own domination. This historical consciousness unites them, even as they confront each other today, in the tendency to leave the people unorganized and unarmed. This historical consciousness unites them, even as they confront each other today, in the tendency to leave the people without organization and unarmed.
THOSE WHO INFLICT HELL ON THE PEOPLE WILL BE OVERTHROWN THROUGH REVOLUTION!
Comrades, friends, and our working people;
Our party TKP/ML, founded as a manifesto, declared its entry into struggle by assuming the mission of vanguard leadership aimed at ending the exploitative order of the Turkish ruling classes—faithful servants of imperialism—while at the same time taking on the task of the international proletariat on the lands of Turkey. The scientific ideology it upholds, Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, is the one and most realistic prescription for the international proletariat and the oppressed working peoples of the world.
Revolution is action; every prescription is born within action and exists to be translated back into action. In its 54-year history, it has been tempered and steeled by the red flame of struggle, never hesitating in its action that transforms, changes, and destroys while simultaneously building. It has acted, and continues to act, with the awareness that every blow struck against the comprador big bourgeoisie and the landlords is a blow against the imperialist capitalist system that drives humanity toward destruction. We are conscious that we are a drop in the sea. We know that this sea is the people who will engulf the imperialists and their lackeys.
The ruling classes in Turkey are becoming increasingly dependent on the imperialists they serve as lackeys, and are placing the entire burden of the crisis on the working class and the oppressed people. Already possessing a fragile and weak economic structure, Turkey, as it also bears this burden of the crisis, has begun to push the life of the people further into darkness. In Turkey, which already has a fragile and weak economic structure, as it also shares in this burden of the crisis, the life of the people has begun to be pushed further into darkness. The insatiable appetite for profit has deepened exploitation, and nature has been opened up to even greater plunder. Decaying and rotting imperialism and its lackeys have imposed this on the masses and have spread it by every possible means. The fascist dictatorship, with its increasingly crude assaults, has made it even difficult for the masses to breathe, while dragging them into the vortex of blind violence. This process has accumulated deep anger among the masses, and society has become like a volcano ready to erupt. Efforts are being made to blunt the burning and reducing-to-ashes character of this eruption, and the organized power of the masses is being targeted. While liquidationist attacks are being implemented through broader-than-yesterday policies, the revolutionary dynamic is being sought to be destroyed. Partimiz bu tür süreçlere yabancı değildir. Partimizin temelleri, yalnızca mevcut egemen düzene karşı verilen mücadelede olgunlaşmakla kalmamış, aynı zamanda tasfiyecilikle hesaplaşma ve ondan kopma temelinde de ortaya çıkmıştır.
Our party, whose founding manifesto is armed struggle and whose revolutionary strategy is the protracted people’s war aimed at the piecemeal seizure of power, has been steeled to the extent that it has fought all liquidationist offensives to date, and has secured a lasting place in class struggle. Our Party, conscious of the protracted character of the war, also holds a clear and resolute understanding in opposition to all theories and approaches that produce despair and demoralization.
We are aware of our shortcomings and inadequacies. However, we possess the will, consciousness, and action to change this. Our tasks are more complex and more difficult than yesterday, but they are not impossible to accomplish. Our position remains as clear today as it was yesterday: we stand not only against the practical attacks directed at the revolutionary struggle and its armed line, but also against liquidationist offensives that spread theory of "impossibility".We know that it is revolution that will shatter the darkness, overthrow those who inflict hell upon the people, and create light and the people’s own power. With this consciousness, we will hold more firmly to the People’s War and, by organizing the masses and channeling them into the war, we will assume our leadership task with greater audacity.
Our struggle for the Democratic People’s Revolution is also a challenge to imperialism. Every blow struck from the storm centers of revolution against the true masters of darkness will be a blow against the system’s very core codes. Our revolutionary line, in a period in which imperialist aggression is becoming increasingly intensified day by day, also defines a consistent anti-imperialist line. While raising the anti-imperialist struggle against imperialism’s stance of expanding and escalating war against the working peoples and oppressed nations, we will not allow any confusion of consciousness that regards certain inconsistent reactionary ruling forces as positions of anti-imperialism. We will firmly defend the proletariat’s alliance policy against approaches that regard every “victim” as progressive and ignore their class character. Our understanding of the enemy will remain clear, and our tactical approach will be in line with our strategic line.
However, what is essential is the construction of an action line that will make this line a material force in the lives of the masses. İşte bu, henüz başaramadığımız, bir bütün olarak henüz ulaşamadığımız noktadır. However, we possess the science that will reverse this, the ideology that will guide us, and the practical will to integrate with the masses. We will overcome our shortcomings and expand our achievements.
As students and successors of the Communist Leader comrade İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA, we hold firmly to the red path he charted. We will continue to integrate our Party—created through his ideological and practical line—with the masses, to develop its line of struggle, and to protect, strengthen, and expand it against all kinds of attacks.
Glory to our Party, which on the 54th anniversary of its founding takes the science of Marxism–Leninism–Maoism as its guide, persists on the line of People’s War, and stands as an open challenge against imperialism, its lackeys, and all forms of reaction!
Death To Imperialism and All Forms Of Reaction!
Death To The Fascist Dictatorship of The Comprador Big Bourgeoisie and The Landlord Class; Long Live Our Democratic People’s Revolution Struggle!
Glory To İbrahim KAYPAKKAYA, The Founding And Theoretical Leader Of Our Party!
Glory To Our Martyrs Who Have Kept The Red Flag Of Our Struggle Flying High For 54 Years!
Long Live Our Party, The TKP/ML, And The TİKKO And TMLGB Under İts Leadership!
Long Live The People's War!
Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism!
Long Live Proletarian Internationalism!
April 2026
TKP/ML CC-PB
( Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist Central Committee -Political Bureau )
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